unfrocked

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not official or not (yet) uniformed

v. Simple past tense and past participle of unfrock.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Examples

Again the same pattern: repeated petitions from the local diocese to have the criminal "unfrocked" (an odd term when you think about it) met with stony indifference from Ratzinger's tightly run bureaucracy.

Here I found keen-flashing intellects and brilliant wits; for here I met strong and alert-brained, withal horny - handed, members of the working-class; unfrocked preachers too wide in their Christianity for any congregation of Mammon-worshippers; professors broken on the wheel of university subservience to the ruling class and flung out because they were quick with knowledge which they strove to apply to the affairs of mankind.

It is more a series of linked short stories than a novel, mainly telling the story of a year in the life of Gösta Berling, a somewhat dissolute unfrocked clergyman who is given a chance to redeem himself through the exercise of social and moral responsibility.

Considering the pattern of your blogging "on t'internet" we can only assume that should this hilarious Tory maven be unfrocked as a girl she is genetically not fit to hold a pencil or rattle a keyboard.

Wordmap

Word visualization

Comments

"Meanwhile, I was studying his appearance. Quite apart from the scrubby, unfed, unshaven look that a newly captured man generally has, he was a disgusting specimen. But he did not look brutal or in any way frightening: merely neurotic and, in a low way, intellectual. His pale, shifty eyes were deformed by powerful spectacles. He could have been an unfrocked clergyman, an actor ruined by drink, or a spiritualist medium. I have seen very similar people in London common lodging houses, and also in the Reading Room of the British Museum."- George Orwell, 'Revenge is Sour', Tribune, 1945.